Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
- To: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Cc: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>, Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>, 353277@bugs.debian.org, Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
- From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:36:37 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20060218163637.GA682@glandium.org>
- Mail-followup-to: Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>, Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>, 353277@bugs.debian.org, Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow
> The availability to do this is enough even if there are other
> (possibly better) ways to do the same. One free driver _in_ Debian and
> the package should stay in main.
>
> But does the cipe-source build or ship the windows driver for use with
> ndiswraper? I doubt that.
>
> Which means you need some software (even if it is free) from outside
> Debian for ndiswraper. That makes it contrib imho.
Are there any free MSWord files in main ? No ? Then please move
antiword and similar tools to contrib.
Mike
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